Welcome to the cult of Sarah Palin’s book

A popular charge by conservatives at President Obama these days is that his strongest supporters are ‘O-Cultists’ or ‘O-Bots.’ It’s not entirely without merits. There are definitely people who are way too into President Obama, and certainly were so during the campaign. Dressing your baby in an Obama onesie? That’s a little much man.

This was well satirized by the creators of South Park in the post-election episode ‘About Last Night.’ Of course, what Trey and Matt ably pointed out was that just as much ridiculous triumphalism and obsessiveness as there was among the Obama people, there was a cult of panic among Republicans who backed Senator McCain’s efforts to be our president.

*That* cultish behavior is something that the people who slam the ‘O-Bots’ refuse to acknowledge. See, for instance, Robert Costa, whose ‘Rogue: The Sarah Palin book blog‘ is chronicling the roll out of ‘Going Rogue: An American Life’ so exhaustively that it’s verging on transforming the National Review into a Palin fan fiction website (over 200 entries since it went live on November 13th!).

Or, consider the contrast between the following two images, the first taken from this evening’s edition of the Drudge Report:

And, then there’s the below from Communist China:

Whatever side of the political debate you’re on, we all benefit from some self-awareness, and by not taking our own side *too* seriously. That’s true whether you’re Matt Drudge, Matt Stone, Matt who dresses his baby in an Obama onesie, or Matt who waited in line for 14 hours to get Sarah Palin to autograph his copy of ‘Going Rogue.’